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CHARLES HAMILTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 67,048, dated August 13, 1807; untedatctl Aug'ust l,1867.

SELF-SUPPLYIN G MUCILAGE-BRUSH.

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TO 'ALL 'IO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Be it known that I, CHARLES HAMILTON, ofNew York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented anewand useful Improvement on the Self-Supplying Mucilage-Bottle. an articlewhich has lately been introduced to the public, and on which I believea. patent is now pending; und I do hereby declare that'the state-- montwhich I hereafter make contains a full and exact description of' theconstruction and operation of my improvement, reference being had to theannexed drawings, making n. pnrt of this specification, in which- FigureNo. 1 is a. perspective View of the bottle having the cap or brush coverattached.

Figure No. 2 is a perspective view of the cap or brush-cover.

Figure No. 3 is a perspective view of the bottle.

Figure No. i is a sectional View of the cap having my improvementattache-(l.

Figure No. 5 is a sectional view of the bottle.

Figure No. (i is n sectional view of the bottle and illustrating theelfeet of my improvement.

The self-supplying mneilage-bottle represented by fig. No. 3 is intendedto be arranged so that thi, brush when in use is constantly suppliedwith mucilagc. The brush, which is attached to the bottle by means of ametallic screw, has a tube ruiming `through its centre, and the liquidis intended, on the bottle being turned end upward, to flow through thetube and thus supply the' brush. Each bottle is supplied with a cup orbrush Vcover, represented by iig, No. 2, to protect the brush from dustor evai'ioration. lfiic bottle, with the cap or brushcover .n.ttaehod,is represented by fig. No l. A perfect obstacle against the working of'this arrangement is that the tube running through the brush becomesclogged with hardened mucilnge, and thus renders the bottle unfit foruse, and it is to overcome this diiculty that my improvement isintended. 4

The nature of the device which' I now` claim as my improvement is, :inattachment to thc cup originally used of a. piece of wire running fromthe centre of the cap inside to an inch or so beneath its hase, as shownin iig. No. 4. By this arrangement each time the cap is put on thebottle the wire passes through the mbe of the brush and keeps itconstantly clear. Fig. No. (i illustrates the working of thisarrangement, A being the wire alluded to, and B the tube or passage ofthe brush. Although the diameter of the tube or passage ofthe brush islarger than that of the wire, yet as mucilage, when dried, is verybrittle, the wire must inevitably, on being forced through the tube intothe bottle, break away all incrustation. Another advantage of myimnrovement is that the wire assists in keeping the cap on the bottle,the cap without the attachment of the wire being apt to be thrown oil'by the slightest motion.

What I claim as my invention and improvement, and wish to secure byLetters Patent, is

An attachment to the cap or brush-cover now in use of a piece of wirerunning from the centre of tlie cap` inside to an inch or so beneath itsbase, the wire passing, when the cap is on the bottle, through the tu beor passage in the brush, in the mrmnerfand for the purposes vhereinsubstantially set forth and described.

CHAS. HAMILTON. Witnesses:

HENRY S. MAGRAW, JonN A. WOODRUFF.

